Anyone wondering why Woody Allen's 2017 Wonder Wheel about a love triangle on Coney Island in the 1950s is so underwhelming should watch 2016s Café Society, the same film but set in 1930s Hollywood - a far more satisfying movie on account of its jaunty pace, occasional wry humour and its being held together by an engaging theme: the characters, either gritty realists or dreamers of the high life, each find themselves whimsically contemplating Life's other path, whereas Wonder Wheel's Ginny was trapped going round and round on the same thoroughly unglamorous amusement park ride.
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